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Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools

Author : Marguerite Madden
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540862253
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools by : Marguerite Madden

Download or read book Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools written by Marguerite Madden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Landscape Analysis using Geospatial Tools is the combination of geospatial tools such as remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), geostatistics and geovisualization (e.g., 3D displays, fly throughs, annimation) to analyze landscapes, assess human impacts on earth resources, visualize changes over time and conduct research in landscape ecology. This book truly bridges two broad disciplines, ecology and geography. More specifically, it integrates research and techniques in landscape ecology and geographic information science (GISci) which, in turn, encompasses GIS, remote sensing, GPS, spatial statistics and geovisualization. It is anticipated that this publication will be of interest to a wide audience. Case studies highlight the use of geospatial tools to assess the ecological impacts of human activities and assist in decision making for managers and policy makers.

Patterns in Past Settlements: Geospatial Analysis of Imprints of Cultural Heritage on Landscapes

Author : M.B. Rajani
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811574669
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Patterns in Past Settlements: Geospatial Analysis of Imprints of Cultural Heritage on Landscapes by : M.B. Rajani

Download or read book Patterns in Past Settlements: Geospatial Analysis of Imprints of Cultural Heritage on Landscapes written by M.B. Rajani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity. Such evidence can be hard to detect at ground-level, but may be visible in remote sensing (RS) imagery from aerial platforms and satellites. Drawing on examples from around the world as well as from her own research work on archaeological sites in India (including Nalanda, Agra, Srirangapatna, Talakadu, and Mahabalipuram), the author presents a systematic process for integrating this information with historical spatial records such as old maps, paintings, and field surveys using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to gain new insights into our past. Further, the book highlights several instances where these insights are actionable -- they have been used to identify, understand, conserve, and protect the fragile remnants of our past. This book will be of particular interest not only to researchers in archaeology, history, art history, and allied fields, but to governmental and non-governmental professionals working in cultural heritage protection and conservation.

Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS

Author : Anna Petrasova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319257757
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS by : Anna Petrasova

Download or read book Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS written by Anna Petrasova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new type of modeling environment where users interact with geospatial simulations using 3D physical models of studied landscapes. Multiple users can alter the physical model by hand during scanning, thereby providing input for simulation of geophysical processes in this setting. The authors have developed innovative techniques and software that couple this hardware with open source GRASS GIS, making the system instantly applicable to a wide range of modeling and design problems. Since no other literature on this topic is available, this Book fills a gap for this new technology that continues to grow. Tangible Modeling with Open Source GIS will appeal to advanced-level students studying geospatial science, computer science and earth science such as landscape architecture and natural resources. It will also benefit researchers and professionals working in geospatial modeling applications, computer graphics, hazard risk management, hydrology, solar energy, coastal and fluvial flooding, fire spread, landscape, park design and computer games.

Wetland Landscape Characterization

Author : John G. Lyon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1575041219
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Wetland Landscape Characterization by : John G. Lyon

Download or read book Wetland Landscape Characterization written by John G. Lyon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to assist scientists, engineers, technicians and other resource managers in the evaluation of wetland boundaries and characteristics. Powerful tools - GIS, mapping, remote sensing - are described and demonstrated using practical applications and combined to yield landscape ecological data, and ecological risk assessments. Using numerous technical methods, Wetland Landscape Characterization shows you how to evaluate the presence of wetlands, and the stressors, exposures and ecological systems - streams, lakes, terrestial - that influence their condition. A vital component of the book is the variety of quality assurance/quality control and accuracy assessment techniques presented throughout the text. A thorough understanding of these methods is critical to the success of your project.

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

Author : Ricardo D Lopez
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1498754392
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators by : Ricardo D Lopez

Download or read book Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators written by Ricardo D Lopez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the previous edition, and indeed this update provides much new information and valuable ideas for the professional and assist in directing the training of new personnel. The new edition will feature a combination of landscape ecology metrics, quantitative field measurements, and geospatial analyses.

Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators

Author : Ricardo D Lopez
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351648756
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators by : Ricardo D Lopez

Download or read book Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators written by Ricardo D Lopez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the previous edition, and indeed this update provides much new information and valuable ideas for the professional and assist in directing the training of new personnel. The new edition will feature a combination of landscape ecology metrics, quantitative field measurements, and geospatial analyses.

FRAGSTATS

Author : Kevin McGarigal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book FRAGSTATS written by Kevin McGarigal and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscape Ecology And Geographical Information Systems

Author : R Haines-Young
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203393031
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Landscape Ecology And Geographical Information Systems by : R Haines-Young

Download or read book Landscape Ecology And Geographical Information Systems written by R Haines-Young and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape we see and live in is an important part or our everyday lives, be they urban or rural. Environmental concern has grown in recent years, as a result of public awareness of the detrimental impact industry, transport and tourism can have on the ecosystem. This book examines the role of the new technologies of geographical information systems and remote sensing as media for the study of landscape, as they provide tools of unprecedented power which collect, store, manipulate and analyze data so as to support and assist the decisions which the environmental scientist, ecologist, zoologist and botanist make.; "Landscape Ecology and Geographical Information Systems" is international in scope, provides an overview of operational applications, and offers experiences in the form of case studies of applications to vegetation, animals, and hydrology. The book is organized into four sections. It - provides an overview of the uses of GIS and RSS in landscape ecology; debates conceptual issues such applications throw up; considers analytical techniques and technical issues; and offers experiences in the form of Case Studies On Plant, Abiotic And Animal Landscape Ecology.

Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation

Author : Wright, Dawn
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 161520816X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation by : Wright, Dawn

Download or read book Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation written by Wright, Dawn and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines state-of-the-art developments in coastal informatics (e.g., data portals, data/ metadata vocabularies and ontologies, metadata creation/ extraction/ cross-walking tools, geographic and information management systems, grid computing) and coastal mapping (particularly via Internet map servers and web-based geographical information and analysis)"--Provided by publisher.

Geospatial Intelligence: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522580557
Total Pages : 1853 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis Geospatial Intelligence: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by : Management Association, Information Resources

Download or read book Geospatial Intelligence: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 1853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decision makers, such as government officials, need to better understand human activity in order to make informed decisions. With the ability to measure and explore geographic space through the use of geospatial intelligence data sources including imagery and mapping data, they are better able to measure factors affecting the human population. As a broad field of study, geospatial research has applications in a variety of fields including military science, environmental science, civil engineering, and space exploration. Geospatial Intelligence: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores multidisciplinary applications of geographic information systems to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and to gather data, information, and knowledge regarding human activity. Highlighting a range of topics such as geovisualization, spatial analysis, and landscape mapping, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for data scientists, engineers, government agencies, researchers, and graduate-level students in GIS programs.

Landscape Analysis and Visualisation

Author : Christopher Pettit
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540691685
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Analysis and Visualisation written by Christopher Pettit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London Landscapes, like cities, cut across disciplines and professions. This makes it especially difficult to provide an overall sense of how landscapes should be studied and researched. Ecology, aesthetics, economy and sociology combine with physiognomy and deep physical structure to confuse our - derstanding and the way we should react to the problems and potentials of landscapes. Nowhere are these dilemmas and paradoxes so clearly highlighted as in Australia — where landscapes dominate and their relationship to cities is so fragile, yet so important to the sustainability of an entire nation, if not planet. This book presents a unique collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives — perhaps it could only be produced in a land urb- ised in the tiniest of pockets, and yet so daunting with respect to the way non-populated landscapes dwarf its cities. Many travel to Australia to its cities and never see the landscapes — but it is these that give the country its power and imagery. It is the landscapes that so impress on us the need to consider how our intervention, through activities ranging from resource exploitation and settled agriculture to climate change, poses one of the greatest crises facing the modern world. In this sense, Australia and its landscape provide a mirror through which we can glimpse the extent to which our intervention in the world threatens its very existence.

Learning GIS Using Open Source Software

Author : Kakoli Saha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100047867X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Learning GIS Using Open Source Software written by Kakoli Saha and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the usage, functionality, and application of data in geographic information systems (GIS) for geo-spatial analysis. It offers knowledge on GIS tools and techniques and explains how they can be applied in real-world project to architects and planners in the Indian and the Greater South Asian context using open-source software. The volume explains concepts on planning and architectural tasks, their data, methods and requirements followed, and includes GIS-related exercises on the same tasks. It takes the reader through the concepts of geo-spatial analysis and its referencing system while quoting examples from India. Further, the content of the book will help the planners involved in preparing GIS-based master planning for cities under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme (see Glossary for details). A practical guidebook providing a step-by-step guide to learn open source GIS, this book will be useful for students, scholars and professionals from the field of architecture and planning, geography and other spatial sciences, instructors of GIS courses on planning and architecture, urban and regional planners, transport planners, urban design, landscape architects, environmental planners, departments of town and country planning, and development authorities. It will also be useful for anyone interested in the geospatial analysis.

Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services

Author : Christina von Haaren
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9402416811
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services written by Christina von Haaren and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which human’s benefit. However, these resources and flows of services are increasingly threatened by unsustainable and competing land uses. Particular threats exist to those public goods whose values are not well-represented in markets or whose deterioration will only affect future generations. As market forces alone are not sufficient, effective means for local and regional planning are needed in order to safeguard scarce natural resources, coordinate land uses and create sustainable landscape structures. This book argues that a solution to such challenges in Europe can be found by merging the landscape planning tradition with ecosystem services concepts. Landscape planning has strengths in recognition of public benefits and implementation mechanisms, while the ecosystem services approach makes the connection between the status of natural assets and human well-being more explicit. It can also provide an economic perspective, focused on individual preferences and benefits, which helps validate the acceptability of environmental planning goals. Thus linking landscape planning and ecosystem services provides a two-way benefit, creating a usable science to meet the needs of local and regional decision making. The book is structured around the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses framework, providing an introduction to relevant concepts, methodologies and techniques. It presents a new, ecosystem services-informed, approach to landscape planning that constitutes both a framework and toolbox for students and practitioners to address the environmental and landscape challenges of 21st century Europe.

Geospatial Research: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466698462
Total Pages : 1997 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Geospatial Research: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 1997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having the ability to measure and explore the geographic space that surrounds us provides endless opportunities for us to utilize and interact with the world. As a broad field of study, geospatial research has applications in a variety of fields including military science, environmental science, civil engineering, and space exploration. Geospatial Research: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a multi-volume publication highlighting critical topics related to geospatial analysis, geographic information systems, and geospatial technologies. Exploring multidisciplinary applications of geographic information systems and technologies in addition to the latest trends and developments in the field, this publication is ideal for academic and government library inclusion, as well as for reference by data scientists, engineers, government agencies, researchers, and graduate-level students in GIS programs.

Mapping Geospatial Citizenship

Author : Kousik Das Malakar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031631072
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Mapping Geospatial Citizenship written by Kousik Das Malakar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geospatial Application Development Using Python Programming

Author : Galety, Mohammad Gouse
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Geospatial Application Development Using Python Programming written by Galety, Mohammad Gouse and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics and researchers currently grapple with a pressing issue; the demand for precise and insightful geographical information has surged across various fields, encompassing urban planning, environmental monitoring, agriculture, and disaster management. This surge has revealed a substantial knowledge gap, underscoring the need for effective applications that can bridge the gap between cutting-edge technologies and practical usage. Geospatial Application Development Using Python Programming emerges as the definitive solution to this challenge. This comprehensive book equips academics, researchers, and professionals with the essential tools and insights required to leverage the capabilities of Python programming in the realm of spatial analysis. It goes beyond merely connecting these two realms; it actively fosters their collaboration. By advancing knowledge in spatial sciences and highlighting Python's pivotal role in data analysis and application development, this book plays a crucial part in addressing the challenge of effectively harnessing geographical data.

Digital Mapping of Soil Landscape Parameters

Author : Pradeep Kumar Garg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811532389
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Digital Mapping of Soil Landscape Parameters written by Pradeep Kumar Garg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the mapping of soil-landscape parameters in the geospatial domain. It begins by discussing the fundamental concepts, and then explains how machine learning and geomatics can be applied for more efficient mapping and to improve our understanding and management of ‘soil’. The judicious utilization of a piece of land is one of the biggest and most important current challenges, especially in light of the rapid global urbanization, which requires continuous monitoring of resource consumption. The book provides a clear overview of how machine learning can be used to analyze remote sensing data to monitor the key parameters, below, at, and above the surface. It not only offers insights into the approaches, but also allows readers to learn about the challenges and issues associated with the digital mapping of these parameters and to gain a better understanding of the selection of data to represent soil-landscape relationships as well as the complex and interconnected links between soil-landscape parameters under a range of soil and climatic conditions. Lastly, the book sheds light on using the network of satellite-based Earth observations to provide solutions toward smart farming and smart land management.